The Men They Couldn't Hang: Noose On The Loose
Sean O'Hagan, NME, 2 March 1985
A FEW YEARS BACK if someone had told me that an English pop group would record Eric Bogie's 'The Green Fields Of France', That it would be an NME Single Of The Week, that it would make No. 3 in John Peel's Festive Fifty and that the same group would play folk music to an audience mainly comprising of hard core punkabillys...
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